Talks on voice coding

This is a collection of nice talks that people have given on voice coding, both for learning and historical context. Feel free to add more—they need not be about Talon.

(Note that there's a good chance information in these might be out of date—use the date of the talk combined with your best judgment.)

Talon

• Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code (Pokey Rule, 2023)
• !!Con 2021 - Cursorless: keyboards and mice are sooo last year!! (Pokey Rule, 2021)
  • Probably pretty outdated as far as Cursorless goes, but was the first public talk about it. Also, you can see what the hats originally looked like.
• Programming language design & programming by voice! (LSD seminar) (Michael Arntzenius, 2021)
  • Has some very nice conceptual background about list matching and other Talon concepts. You can also see Pokey in the background, perhaps plotting Cursorless.
• Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway? (Emily Shea, 2019)
  • Perhaps the most famous talk about Talon to date.

Other systems

• The Eleventh HOPE (2016): Coding by Voice with Open Source Speech Recognition (David Williams-King, 2016)
  • Dates back to the "Dragon in a VM" days, but the speaker's enthusiasm makes this one well worth watching.
• Using Python to Code by Voice (Tavis Rudd, 2013)
  • Perhaps the most famous conference talk about voice programming in the last decade or so. Although most of his personal stack was never released, it served as the inspiration for many people and systems thereafter.